Trying Out Needle and Thread Thursdays

NOTE:  My linkup for week 2 somehow resulted in

last week's. HERE is my linkup for Feb 11.

 

Hello and, if you are new here, welcome!

Around here we mostly buy too much fabric to make

more quilts than we know what to do with while we

drink our daily coffee.  Sometimes we share things

from the kitchen and, in the warm months, we look

around the garden and check in on the chickens.

And because I'm not the queen,

I should probably stop referring to myself as we.

With January behind me, it feels as if I'm starting to

have some direction again (yes, I took all of January

to find myself after the holidays).  I'm bursting with

hope that this means I'll be so full of quilty productivity

 that I can again fit in a second post every week

 so today I'm joining in a new-to-me link-up:

Needle and Thread Thursdays by

My Quilt Infatuation (button on side-bar).

If you've been following along, you'll know I've been

working with a whole collection of trimmings that I've

set aside over the last few years.  You know--those little

sets of triangles that are already paired up and would

make great HST's so you just can't bear to toss them

into the trash? 

17.5 x 9

I'm generally a large quilter....er, let me rephrase that.

I'm not exactly small but, well, grammar does matter.

I generally make large quilts but this year I want to

spend some time focusing on getting those minis made

as well so I am here today with my latest squirrel fifth

 mini of the year!  (Doin' great so far, aren't I?)

Having these HST's made up allowed me to whip

up this little runner in less than two hours!

(Note that I hit up my stash of binding scraps

where I came out lucky there, too.)

These HST's are from a quilt that went to my

brother-in-law so this will likely be a gift that

finds its way into that house next Christmas.

The things we can do with scraps! 

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope to see you next

Tuesday when we all check to-do's off our lists

with Home Sewn By Us.  

It looks like I've worked through the obstacles

that came with the snowflake quilt so today, after

brushing up on my paper piecing skills I get to dig in!

(side note: I couldn't get my table runner pic as an

option for my button on the linkup so I had to go with

this snowflake quilt--sorry if that was confusing!)

I also plan to share a few pics of our cadet

taking first in his latest meet.

(But mums the word.  He doesn't like me sharing

pics.  Lucky for me, he doesn't read my blog.)

  See you then!

Happy quilting!